Hi! Sorry I haven't updated!
But finally, I have made it, and put up the chapter. Oh yeah! Go me!
The song was listening to while writing was "Paper Walls" By Yellowcard.
I don't own Maximum Ride or Twilight or Yellowcard.
If I did, it would be awesome.
My house was an inviting site after the difficult day. Or at least it would have been had there not been a rusty second hand car in front of it. Jake didn't have a car like that and none of the Cullen's would be seen in that car.
Which left a grand total of five people that are probably in that car. Bleep. I had been swearing a lot recently. Huh, I wonder why.
I dragged my feet out of Alice's Porsche, and got out of the car with a frown on my face. I knew I could have just pretended that the car wasn't there but then Alice and Edward would have asked why. Dang, how did they find me?
Alice, Edward and I stood in a line in front of the flock. We stood for a moment with Edward standing still and tense. He didn't like the way Fang was looking at me probably, I could tell why, Fang looked like he was about to murder someone. (But I don't think it was me.) Edward wrapped his arm around my waist and dragged me close.
I could have stopped him, but the pain that crossed Fang's face was totally worth it. I smiled an innocent smile and casually turned towards Edward and smiled even bigger at him. He wasn't looking at me though; his attention was turned towards the supposed new kids.
"Hi, what is it you came to say? I asked, turning and acting like I didn't know them. I put a confused expression on my face, while inwardly smirking. And Edward said I couldn't act.
"Max," Nudge began, but my look to her cut her off. I knew I could look pretty scary sometimes.
"Sorry but I have homework to do tonight, unless there was something specific you wanted?" I said my lines perfectly.
"No we just got lost." Fang cut in acting like he didn't know me either. "Monique must have mistaken you for someone else." He glared at her for a second before turning back to me. I gave him a grateful look. He could tell even after all this time when I didn't want to talk.
"We'll see you at school some time." Alice's perky voice returned me back to Earth and I mentally shook myself.
"Bye." I said as I was dragged gently as they could by Alice and Edward into my house. But behind my back I held my hand in the sign for wait.
"Who were they?" Alice asked.
"They're the new kids to our school remember." I wished they would drop it.
"Yeah, but they looked like they knew you." Dang it Alice!
"That girl Nu-Monique thought I was someone they knew." Nudge and her big mouth, I remember that as soon as she could talk she just couldn't stop.
"I don't like how that boy," Edward said stressing the boy part. "Was looking at you."
"How was he looking at me?" I asked honestly curious.
"Like you belonged to him." His answer shocked me. Did Fang really still like me? Did I still like Fang? There were those times when we kissed but I had always run away. But I was older now, and I didn't know if I even was friends with him. But how he had easily read me, and known that I couldn't talk outside felt so nice and familiar.
But I pushed my thoughts away and leaned into Edward's side. "I don't belong to him," I said quietly. "And I can't help how he looks at me." He looked down into my eyes.
I stretched onto my tip toes and pushed my lips to his. The kiss was sweet and…nice. I don't have another way to describe it. I was distracted by Fang, I mean the flocks appearance and it was hard to think about my vampire family.
The flock was there when I was little and stuck in a too small dog kennel. They were there when I had my birthdays and they made a horrible cake from what we had. Even Iggy had limits on his culinary talent.
Edward and his family had been my saviors though. They had sort of replaced the missing piece that had been taken away when my flock abandoned me. And I could actually stick around after Edward kissed me, but that wasn't the case right now. I wanted to get away and just keep flying. Away from Edward, away from Fang and away from Forks.
"I have to get ready for bed," I told Edward, and Alice pulled me upstairs and pulled a pair of pajama bottoms that I didn't know I had from my closet. She pushed me to the bathroom and yelled a "Bye," and left me to get ready for bed.
I pulled off my clothes and hopped in the shower. My wings could be tucked into my back so they nearly didn't feel like they were there. But in the shower I pulled them out a little bit and stretched them just a bit so I could feel the muscles unclench.
After my shower I pulled on a shirt and the pajama bottoms and went to my room. Edward was waiting with his arms open wide. I tumbled right into them and was asleep by the time I was on the bed. But I felt his lips touch my forehead once right before my mind went black.
The whole thing was incredibly suspicious. Edward had just told me a turtle was on my head but when I looked I didn't see anything there, I knew I should have been more concerned with Edwards mental state, but at the moment I was more worried about the fact that I didn't have a turtle on my head. It all seemed very normal to me.
Then I realized that I was dreaming. Which was a big relief to know I wasn't going insane. But then my dream changed.
I was in a beautiful lawn that seemed to be absolutely perfect. The Cullen's were all standing together, and the Flock on the opposite side, looking like they did four years ago. And in the middle I stood my wings out and a beautiful blood red. But my wings were brownish golden? I looked behind me to check but there were no wings on my back.
A huge wolf popped out of the trees. Jake. But he was gone. His eyes showed no humanity. He came lunging at the Flock. I screamed and no sound came out of my mouth. The me in the middle of the crowed walked up to me and pushed me. I fell back expecting ground, but instead tumbled off the cliff that had just appeared behind me.
I sat up from my bed. Edward was looking at me. I panted and put my head in my hands and tried to calm my breathing.
"Are you okay," Edward asked gently. I nodded. "What were you dreaming about?"
"I don't know." My mind was blank. What was it I was dreaming about? Then it all came back to me. The Flock, the wolf, the other me. Oh.
"What did I say?" I spoke in my sleep, and I was sure that last night was no exception.
"You said my name at first like usual." Edward began. "Then you started talking about Fang?" His look was questioning. I blushed; I didn't remember that part of my dream. Who knows what I was saying about him. "Then you screamed."
My eyes widened, I didn't think I did that out loud.
"Yeah, I dreamed that I fell off a cliff." That was pretty close. He looked at me and nodded. I gave him a peck on the cheek, and rushed off to the bathroom to get ready for the day.
The ride to school wasn't awkward today. Edward had gotten his car back and had showed up without Alice to take me to school.
We were joking and talking to each other the whole way. When we got there I got out of the car before Edward had time to get to my door. I resisted the urge to stick my tongue out at him; but settled for an eye roll. He growled, louder than he did when he was around people usually. I figured he hadn't heard anyone around with his talent. But I had heard him with my special hearing; and when I glanced around I saw some of the flock standing a few yards away their eyes wide.
I looked back to Edward and sighed. There were going to be questions later now.
None of my flock had been in any of my classes. They had been keeping to themselves according to Jessica, who had told me everything she knew about them this morning, and I didn't stop her.
Lunch was interesting. The rest of the Cullen kids weren't back yet and the mini flock just sat at their own table, eating two trays each. I knew they would have had more but they wanted to not stick out too much.
Alice was checking constantly on Jasper's future and Edward was focusing on reading the mini flock's minds. And I was thankful that the flock had practiced their mind blocks. Which is very important if you have a mind reader around all the time.
When the bell rang signaling that lunch was over I got up slowly. I didn't know if any of the flock were in my classes for the rest of the day. Edward was still focused as we headed to Biology, I watched as the mini flock moved as a group in the opposite direction each splitting off in unison.
I sighed in relief, it didn't look any of them were in my classes. One less thing to worry about.
Edward sat beside me in our Biology class, and pulled out his note book to take notes. I didn't worry about mine anymore, Edward always made an exact copy of what the teacher said. And I happened to be good at Biology.
I looked down at my own page of blank paper and started to doodle a feather on the side of the page. The door to the classroom opened and closed but I didn't look up. It was probably the teacher.
But I heard no footsteps; I looked up at Fang, who stood looking completely at ease to anyone who wasn't me, but I could see his jaw tense and his invisible tension that was him trying to not run from the room that held the scalpels and other scientific tool that had tortured us in The School.
His mask slipped and he looked right at me.
His face held so much agony from the years of pain that they had given us and I could feel it too, at first at least. I hated this room.
But it was all new to Fang; and I felt sorry for him. I couldn't help it, he used to be family and I had gone through the same thing once.
I'm pretty sure my apologetic thoughts showed on my face because his mask was back up in a second but he looked less tense.
Mr. Banner came in the room then and sent Fang or Nick, to his seat then. The one to the right of Edward and mine.
He moved silently and quickly to his seat and lowered down while staring at me. I looked straight ahead now promising myself I wouldn't look at him.
The lesson was tense, and I couldn't even understand what Mr. Banner was saying. Edward's hand moved across the paper swiftly writing what Mr. Banner was saying without even hearing it. His attention was now focused on me.
I think that I would go crazy if any other people stared at me.
"Bella?" Mr. Banner asked. I struggled to remember what he was talking about.
"Um, I don't know?" I said it as a question.
"Do you know the answer Nick?" If Fang could look surprised in front of people I would say that's how he looked now.
"About a million years ago." He said in a completely emotionless voice. But when he turned to me I saw a tiny smirk on his face.
My suppressed child surfaced and I stuck my tongue out at him. He grinned, not the full out smile I like but close. I then turned and put my hair down and around my face so no one could see my blush.
No one called on me for the rest of my classes and none of the mini flock were in them either.
So you could say that the rest of the day was normal. Alice was excited though because Jasper and the others were going to be coming home the next day.
I was excited because Alice and Jasper would be ahem "busy" and she wouldn't have time to take me on one of her crazy shopping trips.
When I reached my home Edward dropped me off and said he would be back later, he was going on a trip with Alice and Jasper to look into Alice's past and see if anyone knew something, (mind reading came in handy) but he said he would be back before I was asleep.
Of course he couldn't read the flock's minds so he didn't know what fate he was leaving me to.
"Max!" Squealed the girls and tackled me. I pushed Angel and Nudge off me so I could breath and stood up. To be pushed down again.
"Max!" This time it was a boy that pounced me.
"Hello Gazzy." I said patiently. Then waited. "You do realize that you're still on top of me?"
"Oops; sorry Max." He looked so sorry I couldn't help but forgive him. I stood once he had gotten off me.
"That's okay." What could I say? I'm a push over.
I made my way to Iggy, and gave him a light hug. He was much taller than me now and his hair had grown out some. He brushed his fingers over my fingertips to make sure it was me. Then he moved away still smiling.
Last I made my way to Fang. I stood in front of him looking into his eyes. He stood impassive. I wished he would just drop the mask.
Then I surprised us all. I leaped over to him and hugged him. The biggest hug I could muster and one that could put Emmet to shame.
He hugged me back and we just stood there happy to be back together. Until someone cleared their throat, and we broke apart. I couldn't tell who though. But Angel and Nudge were glaring at an innocent looking Iggy so I guess that mystery was solved.
"So um, do you guys want to come in?" I was trying to not push them into the house. It was good to have my family back. They looked to Fang, who was their leader apparently. He nodded once.
I was still kind of angry with them, but I could see where they were coming from because I'm such an understanding leader, and I still loved them all.
Max really can't hold a grudge! Also I want you to say who you think Max/Bella should end up with, Edward or Fang. One of lifes hardest decitions.
So reveiw. Or not, but reveiwers get a imaginary pig.
Yes a pig. I don't know why. You just do...
Okay bye! TTFN -Cistine
P.S. I'll probably update later today also!